THOMASBAMBRIDGE, THOMAS MURPHY, and BENJAMIN WYNN were indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Julia Levene, widow, about nine o'clock in the night of the 28th of April, with intent to steal, and burglariously stealing therein, two pictures, value 18d., and one table-cloth, value 3s., her property.

Oglethorpe, having been informed of shocking cruelties and oppressions exercised by goalers upon their prisoners, moved the house of commons for an examination into these iniquitous practices, and was chosen chairman of a committee appointed to inquire into the state of the goals in this kingdom.

A bill was brought in to disable Bambridge from executing the office of warden, for the better regulating the prison of the Fleet, and for more effectually preventing and punishing arbitrary and illegal practices of the warden of the said prison (fn.

The honour of carrying this noble design into execution, is due to Thomas Coram, captain of a trading vessel, who with unwearied diligence solicited the patronage of persons of quality and distinction; and at length obtained a royal charter for erecting an hospital for foundlings, dated October 17th 1738 (fn.

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Pacific Magazine: FRENCH POLYNESIA: Bambridge Extended Family To Hold Tahiti Reunion(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)

The organization of the reunion is the work of the Bambridge Family and Close Relatives Association, which was created a dozen years ago to track down as many living members of the family as possible.

The 12 Bambridge women married into the Coppenrath, Martin, Tevane, Adams, Cave and Bodin families, which were equally important as well as historic during the same epoch.

Besides a business success, the Bambridge name is also associated with music, sports, navigation and the general prosperity of the City of Papeete.

“And that James Barnes, William Pindar, John Everett, and Thomas King were agents of, and accomplices with the said ThomasBambridge in the commission of his said crimes.

Oglethorpe, by direction of the committee, it was unanimously resolved to address his Majesty that he would be graciously pleased to direct his Attorney General forthwith to prosecute, in the most effectual manner, the said ThomasBambridge, John Higgins, James Barnes, William Pindar, John Everett, and Thomas King for their said crimes.

Oglethorpe’s motions, two bills were ordered to be brought in, one to disable ThomasBambridge from holding or executing the office of Warden of the Prison of the Fleet, or to have or exercise any authority relating therein.

This title, as given to the king's eldest son, had been created originally as a measure of conciliation towards the Welsh, and it would be still more gratifying to that people when the House of Tudor came to the throne.

Little is said of the actions of the youthful prince, except that his good qualities became more and more developed, until the year 1501, when, in the month of November, Arthur, who had just completed his fifteenth year, was married with great ceremony to Catherine of Arragon, a Spanish princess, then in her eighteenth year.

Yet this wretch, probably by means of the cash he had accumulated in his cruel extortions, managed to escape justice, dying a few years afterwards, not as he might and ought to have done, at Tyburn, but by his own hands.

The identities of Morris and Strickland can be determined, but Capt. Southcoate was either Richard or Thomas Southcoate of Dorchester, both of whom had petitioned earlier to be made Freemen.

At that same session, we note also that Thomas Dudley replaced the more conservative John Winthrop as Governor, and the powerful and persuasive Rev. John Cotton (among the second group of Freemen, below) was heard to speak on constitutional issues.

As was noted above, the Oath of 1631 was considered unreasonably demanding to many of the first settlers, and the Oath in 1634 was reworded to make allegiance binding to the Commonwealth, but not to the persons of the present government, and also allowed the oath-taker's conscience to bear in its interpretation.

However, thanks to the fact that my great great great grandfather, Thomas Fowell ­Buxton, was made a baronet in 1840, their names are to be found in the snobs' reference book, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage.

Tegl had noticed that the deed was coming up to its 200th anniversary and magnanimously resolved to return it to the Buxton family, using Janet Bambridge as intermediary.

In 1806 Thomas Fowell Buxton (who was known as Fowell) had just come down from Trinity College Dublin with a good degree in law.

Upon the death of Roger Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, this manor came to King Edward I., and was given by King Edward II.

William Rookwood, Esquire, married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hales, brother of Sir Stephen Hales, and had a daughter, Mary (sister and co-heir of William Rookwood, Esquire; whose will was dated 21 October 1474 and was proved 8 November 1474).

Sir Thomas Hales was Vice-warden of the Cinque Ports and Clerk of the Green Cloth, and was given a pension until he could be provided for in office.

House of Commons.Committee Appointed to Enquire into the State of the Gaols of this Kingdom...

Hughes, concerning ThomasBambridge, late Warden of Fleet, prisoner in Newgate Inquires into allegations that Sir Robert Eyre, Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, had visited ThomasBambridge, imprisoned at Newgate.

The Committee had received information that Eyre has visited Bambridge, former Warden of the Fleet, now imprisoned, and supplied him with money.

The wording is however unclear as to whether it was her or Francis McWilliam (Mulligan) who did so.

Wife of Francis Mulligan and mother of Cathrine McWilliam (Mulligan) The Rea family genealogy is ambigous but it would appear that she was widowed and remarried Joseph Dickson, solicitor, of Ballyvally House, Bambridge, County Down and had

After having asked that the neck iron on one prisoner -- Sir William Rich -- be taken off on Feb. 27, the committee found that warden ThomasBambridge had not only put the neck iron back on Rich, but added two extra sets of the 15-pound irons.

On the 28th, they demanded to see Rich again and found him in great pain, his arms and legs swollen.

In Richmond County, Gertrude Thomas, who loved to read and write, discovered a way to help herself with these activities, as she recorded in her journal:

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Heins and Lafarge's work meets Cram and Fergusons portion at the unfinished Guastavino vaulted crossing, whose southern transept is the Greek Revival shell of the 1840 Leake and Watts Orphanage.

Suspended during World War II, construction recommenced on the unfinished Cathedral in 1979 under the supervision of the British stonemason James Bambridge.

In keeping with the Cathedral's contemporary role as a social institution, the work took the form of a community development project.

In 1603 Henry, Hugh and Thomas Bambrick were among a number of Irishmen of Co. Leix obtaining "pardons".

Reid BAMBRIDGE died 8 Dec 1889 at age 22 yrs of rupture of large blood vessel of lungs.

I am not sure where this is but one page uses as its source Tullamore Her) by Tony Bambrick (originally of Stradbally), head master at a school in Portarlington, and shared with me in hopes of our finding our connection.

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An Account of the deaths by destitution & starvation of the four children of Thomas Hardy, weaver, of Baguley, in the Altringham Union...

An account of the many and great loans, benefactions & charities, belonging to the City of Coventry, to which is annexed, a copy of the decretal order, of the Court of chancery, relating to the memorable charity of Sir Thomas White.

Bambridge's case against the bill now depending, to disable him to hold or execute the office of Warden of the prison of the fleet, or to have or exercise any authority relating thereto